Post by kat on Oct 16, 2008 15:47:06 GMT -6
I am going to a annual Halloween Party in the area and I would like a few new stories to tell, like what some of you have experienced while legend tripping ect. So, put them out there if you've got them!
I also have one that I don't usually see out on the net about the area I would like to share.
There was a missing hiker about 20 years ago here in Columbia County. It was a woman Hiker who was hiking the area near Hwy 78 btw Portage and Merrimac. Her car was found near Petra rd off Hwy 78 before you get to the turn for Durward's Glen, coming from Portage. They found her body in a ravine off Petra rd. You can find this ravine coming from Portage to Merrimac, turn on Petra and drive short distance till you get to a guard rail on the right side of the road. Park and look down and you'll know you there because it just drops off! As well as, your heart will skip a beat and every time I myself has stopped or others, we all feel like there is a presence, weather at night or in day and that we need to leave asap. You also may get a sense of extreme sadness, which is odd because it is really a beautiful view from there and a beautiful area of WI. Not many know of this place except locals and that is how I heard of this, (from a resident of hwy 78) One of my long time friends was out there one night with her boyfriend and they stopped and got out of the car to take a look, she wanted to show her boyfriend, and they took pictures and tried to Hike down. My friend who is a climber said she got no more than a few yards down the hill in the woods beside the ravine and just felt frozen and started to freak out, and her boyfriend had to pull her up the hill. She said after they left and calmed down she couldn't explain it, except, it felt like a wall that she couldn't get past, every time she tried to go further, her heart would race and panic would start.
Apparently, police never discovered what happened to the hiker except they felt it was foul play. The local who told me this said that her mother told her, when this all went down, a suspect was a local farmer but it wasn't solved.
The one thing I have found on line about any other people who have witnessed anything odd is that a woman has been seen at night walking along hwy 78 specifically BTW Petra Rd's. two outlets, near a little cement bridge with a stream running under, in a sharp turn. (this area is only about a mile in distance) The lady on the rd. won't look at you and when you stop she will disappear.... weird. The local who showed me this place said she has seen this lady on the rd. a few times over the years, only when she was alone on her way home and only at night after midnight.
I also have one that I don't usually see out on the net about the area I would like to share.
There was a missing hiker about 20 years ago here in Columbia County. It was a woman Hiker who was hiking the area near Hwy 78 btw Portage and Merrimac. Her car was found near Petra rd off Hwy 78 before you get to the turn for Durward's Glen, coming from Portage. They found her body in a ravine off Petra rd. You can find this ravine coming from Portage to Merrimac, turn on Petra and drive short distance till you get to a guard rail on the right side of the road. Park and look down and you'll know you there because it just drops off! As well as, your heart will skip a beat and every time I myself has stopped or others, we all feel like there is a presence, weather at night or in day and that we need to leave asap. You also may get a sense of extreme sadness, which is odd because it is really a beautiful view from there and a beautiful area of WI. Not many know of this place except locals and that is how I heard of this, (from a resident of hwy 78) One of my long time friends was out there one night with her boyfriend and they stopped and got out of the car to take a look, she wanted to show her boyfriend, and they took pictures and tried to Hike down. My friend who is a climber said she got no more than a few yards down the hill in the woods beside the ravine and just felt frozen and started to freak out, and her boyfriend had to pull her up the hill. She said after they left and calmed down she couldn't explain it, except, it felt like a wall that she couldn't get past, every time she tried to go further, her heart would race and panic would start.
Apparently, police never discovered what happened to the hiker except they felt it was foul play. The local who told me this said that her mother told her, when this all went down, a suspect was a local farmer but it wasn't solved.
The one thing I have found on line about any other people who have witnessed anything odd is that a woman has been seen at night walking along hwy 78 specifically BTW Petra Rd's. two outlets, near a little cement bridge with a stream running under, in a sharp turn. (this area is only about a mile in distance) The lady on the rd. won't look at you and when you stop she will disappear.... weird. The local who showed me this place said she has seen this lady on the rd. a few times over the years, only when she was alone on her way home and only at night after midnight.
